Microsoft Office 2013 has reached the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) milestone, meaning it is ready to be shipped to manufacturers and business partners. While that means the Office 2013 is essentially ready for the market, it won't reach the...

Scientists have finally found out how long DNA lasts in fossils. Alas, their discovery puts dreams of real life Jurassic Parks to rest for good. As it turns out, DNA has a half-life of 521 years, according to researchers who studied fossils of...

Social media addiction: a disease likely affecting millions, but one that's hard to track because it comes in many forms. The afflicted may reveal themselves as serial likers. They may have push notifications set for the most minor of social...

Joe Biden and Paul Ryan met for the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2012 election season on Thursday night. The debate was heated, and the candidates' body language and facial expressions told its own story. If you missed the...

Give the Obama Administration points for quick thinking: The campaign bought the trending Twitter term #malarkey during the vice presidential debates on Thursday after Vice President Joe Biden used the term. When you search the term, the...

Joe Biden's white, pearly teeth. That's what the Internet was fixated with during the vice presidential debate on Thursday night. Sure, what's coming out of the vice president's mouth is far more important, but something about Biden's choppers...

After analyzing the Twitter profiles of 36 million users who have generated more than 28 billion tweets (that's 794 tweets per person in three years on average), Beevolve's social analytics research reveals user follower bases directly correlate...

Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will meet one another in Danville, Ky., Thursday at 9 p.m. ET for the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2012 election. Mashable readers will be able to watch the entire debate right here: We'll have an...

One of the best parts of Halloween is willingly putting yourself through sheer terror by going through some sort of haunted house or scary hayride. Why do we subject ourselves to extreme levels of fear? For entertainment, of course. But while...

LinkedIn released a list Wednesday of the 100 most in-demand employers, based on interactions between the more than 175 million professionals and companies on the social network, including how often professionals visit and follow a company's...

Joe Biden and Paul Ryan are set to face one another tonight at 9 p.m. ET in the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 election. Looking for a place to watch on your desktop, laptop, mobile phone or tablet? Mashable has you covered. You should...

How often are you lounging in a hot tub and wish an exercise bike would appear in the middle? It's one of those things you never think about, but makes you wonder how something so quirky and brilliant hasn't been dreamed up before. The new FitWet...

Let's say you're a college coach desperate to land that superstar, program-changing recruit. Let's say you want to send said recruit a Twitter DM with a photo of your school's cutting-edge practice facilities. That's cool. Now let's say you want...

If there was ever an incentive to double-check your phone bills, this would be it: A woman in France was just slammed with a quadrillion dollar phone bill. Yes, really. A woman named Solenne San Jose -- who cancelled her account with French phone...